Text types have become one major area of investigation in research into academic writing and written text in general. Attempts have been made to characterize types of texts such as argumentative, expository, and narrative ...

This work seeks to develop a critical, ethnographic understanding of competition in local television journalism. Using methods of participant observation, focused interviews, and critical textual analysis, the author argues ...

Using The Times's coverage of the Thurtell-Hunt murder case of 1823-24 as a point of departure, this dissertation explores how the English middle class used the criminal as a site of self-representation--especially masculine ...

This dissertation is an evaluation study of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in Illinois and how that act was implemented by public universities, particularly by the largest university in the state, the University of ...

This critical study interrogates the history of the National Association of Black Journalists, the nation’s oldest and largest advocacy organization for reporters of color. Founded in 1975, NABJ represents the quintessential ...

This study explores Business English in a sociolinguistic framework. More specifically, business journalism style of The Wall Street Journal, an American English newspaper, and The Nation, a Thai English newspaper, is ...